POLL: N900 failure rate
 

Vote "Mine's working perfectly" if you device is working eg. boots and is usable.

Vote "Mine's faulty/bricked" if your device was dead on arrival / bricked itself / microphone is not working / not booting. Don't vote if you installed something from extras-testing or extras devel, it's your own fault if it's bricked due to that.

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Looking good so far - 100% working perfectly. :)

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mines working great right out of the box ^_^

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Maybe you could do another line:

Mine is partially/minor faulty?

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please specify

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I have a feeling that a lot of people come here because their phone is broken, which would lead to the poll not being very reliable.
Also, I should be able to vote twice, because both the N900 I'm using work fine :)

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That's almost a given in somewhere like this. And yet we are seeing a steady stream of happy customers... and I believe the last poll like this did the same.

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Mine has been totally rock solid so far. Tried to crash it yesyerday by opening a few apps, browser windows and then sending a huge mp3 via bluetooth while sending sms, gtalk message at same time.

Can someone suggest a more wicked crash procedure ?

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it seems that my speculations are correct (at least for now!) : random reboots could be hardware related and doesn't affect the majority.

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yes but if it is so Nokia should call every user with that issue for a replacement. There are many people here talking about it and they have our mail address at least!
Anyway neither calling them by phone its always a success to obtain this replacement.

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Don't forget that anyone may create a bug report so that any problems can get fixed. I have had my N900 developer model for more than a month without any problems what so ever (aside from issues with fennec, the firefox mobile browser.)

If you have problems, please speak up - they cannot get fixed if Nokia or Maemo does not know about it.

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https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6334

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6350

left a contact request to nokia @ weekend, no reply yet. I'll call them tomorrow but I fear that getting a new device is a no go for now when even some preorderers are still waiting.....

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If more people could reply to this poll it would be beneficial.

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For the people who are voting faulty/bricked, can they post a short description of their problem.

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To the original poster, and all who'd prefer to complain, you all do realize that there is a general rule about failure rates with mobile devices... usually in the area of 3-10% depending on yields and number of manufacturing finishing points.

For a device like the N900, there are probably 2 maybe three factories finishing the device, and with global availability, and a projection of .5-1 million devices over its calculated lifetime (not saying that will be it, but there are general targets for initial device sales; for Nokia and this type of device, 1 million devices shipped and sold is pretty successful and heady given the target audience and price). So to get a defect rate of less than 5% would be great - especially of those defects can be traced to a specific factory of assembly or part's orgin of development.

Coming to a forum, where traditionally only those people with issues speak loudest and most often, and asking about failure rates is about as biased a statistical output as the results of a US Presidental election in Florida. In other words, the sample size here will be too small to gather anything of value except for statistical anonamolies.

I would hope that folks responding to this are insightful enough to understand this and not get peeved that Nokia isn't addressing their very desires for a *perfect* device.

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Just from someone who may be on the wrong site and knows very little about programming. From what I have seen and experienced is the device is soild for the most part. I would agree that this appears to be more of a beta device promoted and released way to early. Issues with customer service did not help matters. Go from a N95 to a E71 to a N900 the craftman ship appears as good if not better than most cellphones on the market. As for as the software readiness that is within the system for a common user its a little confussing. For there superb advertising yet again a little premiture for proper syncing, ovi downloadable programs, as well as Maemo.

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To the novice users reading this, don't do it. Ever.

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bad kitty.

BAD KITTY!

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If you are inexperienced with Linux then do not use Root access.. You'll end up brick the device if you accidentally modified or delete something that you're not supposed too. I advised to stay away :D If root is damaged then you're screw

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I voted 'mine's faulty' since I have the random reboot issue. Having it exchanged today for a new one hopefully.

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i quess most have random reboots.

either sw_rst or 32wd_to. my unit has 32wd_to (hw watchdog)

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My device did a random reset after its first 30 minutes of use, and has been perfect since (5 days and counting...)

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Looking good so far, 17% failure rate according to current statistics.

I am very aware of that. I just wanted to see some guestimates about the current situation since so many people are complaining how their devices are not working correctly. I just wanted to see how many actually have a working device ;)

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Lol add an option that says "I wish I knew, I never got one still."

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lol, common sense didn't say that there is no need to post here unless you have a device?

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mine is having battery problems, its going down way to fast, I hope they will change my phone for a new one.

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have you installed something? if you have, i'd uninstall everything just to be sure it is hw related.

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Mine's faulty. It refuses to ship. :p

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Biggest thing I found that drained the battery like mad was when I left my wifi area and had the check for new wifi set to every 5 minutes - killed my battery FAST. Since I have changed that to every 30 - or disabled it altogether it lasts a lot longer.

Oh handy tip for the fm transmitter - put you N900 on the left side of the dashboard - seems to be the key for getting clear signal for me in at least 3 cars.

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Do you consider dead pixels a "failure"?

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It depends on the number of dead pixels. Most companies usually have a minimal requirement before its deemed a failure.

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i didn't vote but mine has battery problems, also the web browser blacks out sometimes but thats probably a firefox problem.

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You will not get the N900 failure rate by a thread like this. lol

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I did almost everything, stoped wi-fi searching, disabled the gps, removed facebook from the desktop.

i read somewhere that the e-mail app is draining too much power so I just removed all of my mail boxes, I will wait and see.